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(11) EP 1 138 302 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.01.2004 Bulletin 2004/04

(43) Date of publication A2:
04.10.2001 Bulletin 2001/40

(21) Application number: 01302613.3

(22) Date of filing: 21.03.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: A61F 13/56
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 31.03.2000 JP 2000096854

(71) Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATION
Kawanoe-shi Ehime-ken (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Suga, Ayami, Technical Center
    Mitoyo-gun, Kagawa-ken 769-1602 (JP)
  • Wada, Mitsushiro, Technical Center
    Mitoyo-gun, Kagawa-ken 769-1602 (JP)

(74) Representative: Parry, Christopher Stephen 
Saunders & Dolleymore, 9 Rickmansworth Road
Watford, Herts. WD18 0JU
Watford, Herts. WD18 0JU (GB)

   


(54) Sanitary Panty


(57) Provided is a sanitary panty including a front part, a back part, a crotch part located between the front part and the back part, a waist portion formed by an upper edge portion of the front part and an upper edge portion of the back part, a pair of leg openings defined below joining portions of both side edges of the front part and both side edges of the back part, a suspending member extending over the front part, the crotch part and the back part in a longitudinal direction, and an extension cloth extending from both sides of the suspending member located at least in the crotch part and the back part. The suspending member is gradually reduced a width from the waist portion to the crotch part in the back part. The suspending member has greater elastic modulus in a longitudinal direction than that in a lateral direction.






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